"Auntie" or "Aunty" which is 'nicer'?

[EachPeachPearMum]

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Auntie

It just feels cosier. Sorry if that isn't a highbrow enough answer for Pedants' Corner

I think "Auntie" is correct, "Aunty" incorrect but nonetheless somehow in common usage.

Not too sure though!

Auntie. That's what I am

What about just Aunt?

Neither. Aunt is nicer.

I think I did a thread on this once

and I think the answer was Auntie

i think its all in the dark ages

i dont encourage dds to use auntie and uncle

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naily you are a weirdo

I think it was once observed that Lennon was middle-class because he had an "Aunt's house" where he lived. if it had been McCartney it would have been his "auntie's house"

Aunt is nice but it makes one sound like a spinster in a tumbledown cottage with hundreds of cats - cf Maiden Aunt and as my sister had her first when I was just 20 I was NOT ready for that!

Prefer the look of Auntie but most of my nieces and nephews just call me by my first name.

I think Aunt sounds cold

it gies me the willies

Can we have "Junior Torchwood" with all the sex, swearing (and plot) cut out? It would go well at 6.45.

Ignore me. Wrong thread!

am an auntie

UQD if I was Aunt something I'd feel about 100 years old and would feel obliged to purchase some half-moon specs so I could peer over the top of them at my nieces and nephew

SEE

olivia agrees with me

Auntie nicer, but prefer granny to grannie

i think nailpolish is very right - first names fine, no?

UQD is spot on re: 'naicer' or nicer?

Aunt is quite definitely naicer.

greatauntiewurly

my mum hates being granny - she insists on "gran"

olivia is also a weirdo

ds has invented his own name for my mum, but MIL is called gran. I called my grandma granny

nah, shes just pg